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Animated feature is the official name these days, but the old tag cartoon suits the sort of CGI movie - your Shrek, your Ice Age - that goes for big laughs extracted from outlandish situations. Nothing wrong with that; cartoon comedy is an honorable, entertaining and often artful confection and has been since the days of Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop and the sublime Daffy Duck. But animation can go deeper, have higher stakes. You see that impulse in parts of nearly every Pixar picture: the first sections of WALL-E and Up have an ambition, a gravity that stretches the format close...
...release. Still, says Mohammed-Ali Zainy, senior economist at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, "There can be no dispute that this strengthens the relationship between Britain and Libya." Mandelson has since said that the allegation of a trade deal between the U.K. and Libya was "wrong, completely implausible and... quite offensive...
...what's wrong with cheap food and cheap meat - especially in a world in which more than 1 billion people go hungry? A lot. For one thing, not all food is equally inexpensive; fruits and vegetables don't receive the same price supports as grains. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips or 875 calories of soda but just 250 calories of vegetables or 170 calories of fresh fruit. With the backing of the government, farmers are producing more calories - some 500 more per person...
Ensign, Sen. John •explanation by that illicit affair of wasn't as bad as Bill Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky because Clinton "committed perjury" while "I haven't done anything legally wrong...
...heavily to weight each factor? Our accumulated judgment. Our rankings aren't social science in the sense that we're not doing peer-reviewed rankings; we're not submitting our conclusions and our weighting system to a group of academics and letting them decide if they are right or wrong. We do meet regularly with academic experts about the relative importance of the factors that we use. And we have been doing this for 25 years...